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    Congratgulations, Molly and Debbie....you both must be so proud!!!
    
    Sure does feel good to have a winner, eh!!
    
    purrs
    cin
    

    Yeah Debbie, Yeah Lina, Yeah Molly,
    
    I love those persians.....I'm glad you guys did so well.....what
    a purrrrrrrrrrring team.  When I had a persian he loved to purr
    as well which most people said was unusual for perrrrrrrrsians.
    
    bs
    
    

    I went to a cat show this weekend taking with me one of my cats
    to compete as a household pet.  Monroe has never been in a show
    before.  He has been on injured reserve for the last 6 months or
    so, mostly due to FUS.
    
    The show was about an hour and a half from our house.  Monroe has
    been on long trips in the car before so I wasn't too worried about
    that.  I put him in the front seat facing me (in his carrier) so
    that I could watch him while we drove.  We were about 15 minutes
    away when a big truck passed us and Monroe started to panic.  I
    pulled off the freeway and took him out of the carrier to comfort
    him.  After several minutes of cuddling and affection he had calmed
    enough to start off again.
    
    We continued on our way for a few miles with everything going just
    fine.  Monroe was reclining inside the carrier, getting slit eyed.
    I pulled off at our exit, much relieved that he seemed calm again.
    
    As we pulled up to a traffic light, I glanced in my rear view mirror
    and saw a car flying toward us at the speed of light!  I tried
    frantically to get out of the way!  I had stopped some distance
    from the car in front of me so I had some room.  He slammed on his
    brakes at the last minute and plowed into Monroe and I.  I had my
    seatbelt on so I wasn't hurt too badly.  Monroe was thrown to the
    floor of the car where he landed upside down.  He immediately started
    "calling" to me.  I took care of all the details with the "gentleman"
    who hit our brand new Honda Accord LX-i and Monroe and I continued
    on.
    
    Since Monroe is a household pet he would be judged on his temperament
    as well as his grooming etc.  Also the fact that this was his first
    show and he was scared didn't help.
    
    Monroe acted like the champ I knew he was.  He behaved splendidly
    and even finaled in two rings out of four against 31 other cats.
    I am very proud of him and plan to continue to bring him along to
    future shows.
    
    Jo Ann
    
    

    Here is the show report for Sacrechat's Jouissance de Mysinhs.
    She is a sealpoint Birman female, just turned four months.  She
    was one of four sealpoint kittens at her first show.  Considering
    her age (the others were just under the eight month old cutoff)she
    did very well against the competition and I got some very good feedback
    from the judges on her potential.  
    
    Birman kittens are slow to mature, their points and markings develop
    with age.  She did not place in any of the kitten finals, but she
    held her own in competition.  Out of a class of four she recieved
    one first place, two second place, and five third place ribbons.
    She was judged best of color class once and second best of color
    class twice.  I asked Wain Harding, Will Thompson, and Kim Everett
    for evaluations of her and I was very pleased with their comments.
    (it was refreshing to me that they at least agreed with each other
    about her strong points and her faults, it restores faith.)
    
    Out of eight kitten finals, the birmans made it into two, one allbreed
    and one LH specialty.  That is a feat in itself!  I'm looking forward
    to the January shows since there will be a whole new batch of birman
    kittens old enough for competition.
    
    The adult female that I agented took Best of breed in all but two
    rings, but did not place in any finals either.  Unfortunatly, she
    was the only champion in the adult birman class.
    
    JoAnn